tOn Thu, 7 Sep 2000
jjnevins@ix.netcom.com wrote:
> I'm afraid I don't see how that follows. I don't
think, either,
> that Chandler felt that the character's words
weren't worth quoting,
> so much as feeling constrained by The Rules. And
even if the
> character wasn't significant enough to be quoted, I
don't see how
> that establishes aesthetic grounds for evaluating
language.
It wasn't the rules, it was Chandler himself, the
English-bred aesthetic, who confessed he'd never mastubated
because he had been taught not to. How on earth could this
man have written "Motherfucking asshole"? Chandler hated
James M. Cain for being vulgar (I wrote
"bulgar" twice), I just wonder what he would've said of
someone like Ellroy.
Juri
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